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 | Saudi Ambassador to Mali dies | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Saudi Ambassador to Mali, Fawaz Ben Meshel Al-Timyat,
died here on Monday, the Malian government said in a communiqué
released on Tuesday.
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| ICC prosecutor to consider petition on violence in Nigerian city | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague, The
Netherlands, has agreed to investigate allegations of unlawful killing of about
326 people and perpetration of other crimes under international law during the v
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olence in Jos, Nigeria's north central Plateau State, PANA reported Monday.
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| Number of hungry people rises in Southern Sudan | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The number of people in southern Sudan in need of food a
ssistance has more than quadrupled, from
almost 1 million in 2009 to 4.3 million this year because of conflict and drough
t, the UN food agency and Southern Sudanâ?s
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry have said.
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| EAC conference to set regional policy on challenges of disability | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The East African Community (EAC) secretariat Mo
nday announced a two-day regional conference
on persons with disabilities, to determine how best its Treaty could be used as
a basis for developing a comprehensive regional policy for addressing
the challenges facing the disabled.
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| Housing project launched in Bamako | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré and the Chief Execu
tive Officer (CEO)
of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Ahmad Mohamed Ali Sunday laid the foundati
on stone for 340 housing
units, launching the project to construct 20,000 houses in the Malian capital, B
amako, and elsewhere
across the country.
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| Militant group 'disables' Shell pipeline | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian militant group, the Joint Revolutionary Counc
il (JRC), said Sunday it
had "successfully disabled" a major oil pipeline operated by Shell in Nigeria's
oil producing Niger Delta region.
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| Libya to set up Africa Information Centre | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan General People's Committee (government) is to
set up an Africa Information Centre that will specialise in information and cul
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ure, official sources in Tripoli told PANA on Friday.
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| Mauritanian journalist jailed 2 years | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal in N
ouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, on Thursday jailed the editor of the Taqadou
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y news Website, Hanefi Ould Deha, for two years for "inciting rebellion and offe
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ding public morals," judicial sources told PANA Friday.
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| Lack of migration data hampering cooperation, integration in Southern Africa | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Efforts to foster socio-economic cooperation and integra
tion within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and to better mana
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e migration in the region are being hampered by weaknesses in the collection and
measurement of international migration data, International Organization for Migr
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tion (IOM) said Friday.
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| Closure threat looms over Rwandan independent weekly | | Dar es salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) -- an internati
onal non-governmental organization devoted to freedom of the press -- Friday sai
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it was very concerned about the fate of â~Umusesoâ?, one of Rwandaâ?s leading
independent weeklies, which could be closed down as a result of a case brought
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y the public prosecutorâ?s office, accusing it of libel and invasion of privacy.
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| Ivorian press council suspends tabloid, Le Patriote, for 3 | | publications
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian National Press
Council (CNP), a pre
ss regulatory body, has suspended for three publications, the
Patriote, a daily
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ewspaper close to the opposition political party, the Rally of
the Republicans (
R
DR), PANA reported from here Thursday.
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| UN peacebuilding office moves to combat sexual violence | | New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office has joined
forces with a network of over a dozen other UN entities to prevent sexual viole
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ce in armed conflict and respond effectively to the needs of survivors, UN said
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n Wednesday.
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| Museveni files libel complaint against 2 Ugandan journalists | | New York, US (PANA) - An opinion column in Ugandaâ?s leading independent newspa
per suggesting parallels between President Yoweri Museveni and former Philippine
leader Ferdinand Marcos led to criminal libel charges against two journalists We
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nesday, according to local media reports.
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| France supports quick Habré trial | | Paris, France (PANA) - The spokesman of the French ministry of foreign
affairs, Bernard Valéro, said on Wednesday in Paris that
France was ready to take part in the process towards the trial of former
Chadian president Hissène Habré and expressed the wish that â?this trial take
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place quickly and in good conditionsâ?.
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| Libya extends anti-drug campaign to schools | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The third phase of the prevention and sensitization camp
aign against drugs organised by the Libyan Association Fighting Narcotics and Ps
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chotrops, was launched on Wednesday in schools.
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| Rights groups want President Bashir to face â?justiceâ? | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" Rights groups under the banner of â?Coalition for Int
ernational Criminal Courtâ? (CICC) Wednesday called on Sudanese government and i
nternational organizations â?to do their utmost to ensure that President Al-Bash
ir faces justice without delay,â? the groups said in statement received by PANA.
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| UNCHR says 80,000 displaced in Somali conflicts | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - United Nations humanitarian agency, UNHCR, said here Wed
nesday in its latest tally of conflict in Somalia that 80,000 people have been d
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splaced, as violence escalated sharply in January, resulting in hundreds of civi
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ian deaths and widespread destruction.
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| Boa killed in couple's room in DRC | | Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - A three-metre long boa was killed in the bedroom of
a young couple in the city of Bandundu, the administrative centre of the provinc
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of the same name, as it attempted to swallow a four-month old baby who was peac
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fully sleeping on his parents' bed, PANA reported Wednesday, quoting a news repo
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t in the Congolese Press Agency (ACP).
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| Malawi police hunt for gay rights activists, one arrested | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Police in Malawi are hunting for a group of gay rights
activists who are secretly mobilizing the public to warm up to homosexuals foll
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wing the high profile arrest of Malawi's first openly gay couple in the commerci
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l capital, Blantyre, over Christmas, PANA reported.
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| Zimbabwe police arrest 22 WOZA members | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The police in Zimbabwe Tuesday arrested 22 female member
s of a leading pressure group, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), having met them d
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scussing the countryâ?s constitutional reform process in a private home in Bulaw
ayo, PANA reported.
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| 'Judge beheaded over ruling' in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - An Area Court Judge in Nigeria's northern Kwara state, K
azeem Zakari, has been
beheaded by a man said to be unhappy with his (Judge's) ruling dissolving his ma
rriage, at the request of his
wife's family, the local press reported Tuesday.
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| Ethiopia jails editor whose paper challenged Meles Zenawi | | New York, US (PANA) - An Ethiopian judge sentenced a journalist to prison on Fri
day in connection with a January 2008 column that criticized Prime Minister Mele
s
Zenawiâ?s statements about religious affairs in Ethiopia, the Committee to Prot
ect Journalists (CPJ) disclosed Tuesday quoting local journalists in Ethiopia.
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| Mauritius marks 175th anniversary of abolition of slavery | | Le Morne, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian president, Sir Anerood Jugnauth, on M
onday in Le Morne, south-west of the island, presided over the ceremony marking
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he 175th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Mauritius and expressed regr
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t that slavery still exists in other forms which future generations will face.
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